Make x86_64 more visible or even the default choice

[Kamisamanou Burgess]

Maybe not the default choice. x86_64 only accounts for about %25 of Fedora
users according to Smolt.

Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
http://www.kamisamanou.net


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 07:17, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> drago01 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the website focuses on the x86 version of fedora and the
> > x86_64 version is hidden so unless the user knows that he is searching
> > for it, he will just download the x86 version.
> > We should promote the x86_64 as the default choice with a visible link
> > "For older PCs and Netbooks click *here*" (More information)".
> >
> > In F11 effort was made to change the default x86 arch from i386 to
> > i586 to gain extra performance, but benchmarks that I have done back
> > than have clearly showed that you gain much more from moving moving to
> > x86_64.
> > Not only that you have access to more registers MMX, SSE and SSE2 can
> > be used unconditionally.
>
> Can we get a recommendation from FESCo?
>
> Rahul
>
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